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authorRuss Cox <rsc@swtch.com>2009-04-30 07:20:01 -0700
committerRuss Cox <rsc@swtch.com>2009-04-30 07:20:01 -0700
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install: add comment about X11 packages
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.B WSYSTYPE=nowsys
then the system is built without using X11.
.PP
+On most Linux systems, the X11 header packages need to be installed
+to build using X11. On Debian. the required packages are
+libx11-dev, libxext-dev, and libxt-dev.
+On Ubuntu, it suffices to install xorg-dev.
+.PP
.I INSTALL
can safely be repeated to rebuild the system from scratch.
.PP